Re: Need click on button in table to NOT activate app
Re: Need click on button in table to NOT activate app
- Subject: Re: Need click on button in table to NOT activate app
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:48:01 -0500
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Scott Ribe <email@hidden> wrote:
> Like the subject says, I need a window, with a table, with buttons in each
> row of the table--and I need for the user to be able to click on those
> buttons while the app is not frontmost and have the app not activate.
Perhaps you'll have good luck with an overlay window. That will
remove the view hierarchy from your mouse-handling code.
> (Yes, it's a somewhat demented user interface. I'm trying to help a user
> move data from my program into another. The other program is not scriptable
> and has no option to import data--copy & paste is the only way. The other
> program CHANGES ITS ACTIVE WINDOW AND KEYBOARD FOCUS every time it is
> activated, so the only way to copy & paste from my program is to do so
> without my program ever being activated.)
Please do your best to discover the author of this "feature" so we may
exhibit his head mounted on the Interaction Design Wall of Shame.
--Kyle Sluder
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